The most advanced space telescope ever, the James Webb, has sent its first photos, launched into space last Christmas after years of delays.
THE NASA published by the first photo taken by James Webb, intended as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. As expected, the image is still a little blurry, as the instruments have not yet been fine-tuned and will be in the coming months. The image just released was compiled from more than 1500 different images and took more than 25 hours to complete.
The photo shows 18 points of light, but it is actually a single object, HD 84406, located about 260 light years from Earth in the constellation of Big Dipper, not far from Göncölseker. In the future, the researchers aim to adjust the mirrors so that the 18 points of light end up as one.
The incredibly complex James Webb reached its destination, the second Lagrange point, about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, on 24 January. The space telescope will collect information about the earliest ages of the universe, and will study the cosmos, planets and moons in the Solar System, as well as the oldest and most distant galaxies, in the infrared region, which is largely absorbed by our planet's atmosphere.
